Buy-to-let changes could see ownership shuffles
Experts are predicting that the rise in stamp duty payable by buy-to-let landlords will result in an increase in the degree of planning around property purchases, with married couples perhaps giving one spouse their share of the main home in order to then become the sole owner of a further property, for example, or putting a property in a child’s name report Harris & Co chartered accountants Northampton.
Source: The Daily Telegraph (28/11/2015)